>tfw no book-lover gf

>>38440241
Do people really still read?

I wonder if I could get away with rape in a barnes and noble

>>38440241
> she's lying on the book you want to pick up
w-what do?

>In the gaming/graphic novel section
Disgusting

>>38440241

>In the gaming / graphic novels section
>Leaned up against 'womens interest' book case.
>Blocking the aisle.
>Not even reading.

They have chairs in mcnallies, you dumb broad.

Also, enjoy dealing with all the 'book-loving' girls who read primarily romance novels.

and btw, that will dry some pussies up, if you use that as your primary connector.

>i love reading!
>you should read (insert shitty YA novel) anon!
Everytime

>>38440333
You forgot
>starbucks coffee
She is a stacy roast

Reading is nice, it's not for everyone but I enjoy it, shame /lit/ is such a shithole

>>38440270
its really just as enjoyable as watching a movie

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>>38440241
>she's reading young adult/contemporary novels
shit taste, at least have a gf who reads good books

a lot of girls will pretend to like charles bukowski, just like they pretend to like video games and star wars

>>38440270
t. right-winger

>>38440398
>shame /lit/ is such a shithole
Sure as hell better than most boards

>>38440297
scuse me there bud

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>>38440707
That's not very hard anon, I also don't read much so being there scares me a bit.

>Sitting in the aisle
Doesn't matter if you're a stacy or a weaboo, get the fuck up and sit in the appropriate area.

>>38440241

>long sleeves over hands
>reading
>oversized coffee
>wearing all black

Stay far away from girls like this, they're fucking crazy

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>>38440270
Yea. I'm reading the Witcher books right now and it's awesome. You should do it too.

>>38440270
There is a literature department in every college in the west. These are people who will read hundreds of books during their four years in college.

>>38440706
What is Mein kampf

>>38440939
A shit delusion penned by a madman literally in jail?

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>>38440835
that's how I like em. If loyal no problem.

>>38440950
In jail for attempting a coup that would save his nation.

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Nice subliminal messaging Todd, I'm not buying your game

>>38440270
Just finished a 1.68 million word web series called Worm.

>>38440241

Are there girls who actually read books and don't have to have their picture taken while doing so to prove it? They just do it? Because that's all I see with girls.

>>38440270

No not really. I read a fuck ton because I find it more enjoyable than the watered down, changed stories that Hollywood spits out. In the fiction department at least. Even fiction still expands one's mind and imagination, gets you thinking better and more effectively and learning how to communicate your thoughts better with a bigger vocabulary.

Right now I'm reading all those Barnes and Nobles bargain bin classics that are like $8 for a volume of 5-6 novels by classic authors like Vernes, Wells, Burroughs etc. It's quite enjoyable.

>>38440308
>disliking comics
Go fuck yourself buddy

>>38440707
I honestly hate /lit/ more than most boards. I'm certain there are plenty of intelligent browsers that actually read, but most of them are arrogant pseudo-intellectual 10th graders who just finished Catcher in the Rye.

>>38440241
I doubt she's read a single sentence in that book.

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>>38440297
haha, i'll try again tomorrow

>>38440707
Yes and no. less shitposting because of the hostile environment, but the discussion is incredibly limited for the same reason. Anything that isn't in the general western Canon is a no go, which is pretty miserable. I say this as someone who has a literature degree too.

>>38440835
If by crazy you mean pretentious, vapid and dumb, sure.

>>38440872
>No distrub until coffee and books are finished.

>>38441057
Have heard of this and read first few chapters

Does the chick get dicked

>Getting someone take a picture of her sitting down in a bookshop (in the fucking Gaming/Graphic "Novel" section no less) while she pretends to read with her Starbucks so she can post it online.
What an attention-whoring cunt.

>>38440241

>ywn get to experience her wrapping her long legs around you whilst reading a comfy book

Anyone else here /legs/

>>38441121
I like /lit/ because it encourages me to read, just as /fit/ encourages one to start working out. I've written down plenty of recommendations for books I will get. And every single board is filled with "smart but lazy" pseud/pretentious teenagers anyways, /sci/ and /fa/ being worse

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>>38440241

>starbucks

Congratulations you found stacy.

>>38441384

thighs are the true patrician body part

>be me
>date book girl for 4 months
>thought it was going to be like dating Rory Gilmore
>realise she only reads trash books that buzzfeed recommends
>conversation about books and writing is non existent
>break up because she wants a chad

I starting to believe that book loving girls are not real.

>similar thread on /lit/
rlly make me think

>>38441344
Eventually but it's a pretty minor part of the story and becomes a thematic echo of how minor it is in the scope of the story.

>>38441433
I know robots dismiss the idea convenience when looking at causality chains but there are Starbucks in almost every Barnes and Noble. If she wanted coffee it was right there. But I don't disagree she's likely a stacy.

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>>38440270
>millenials can't comprehend that some people use the brainpower of transforming written words into mental imagery to consume entertainment

>>38441626
>reading for entertainment

>>38441612

at the very least it means she's terrible with money

>>38440270
I'm reading Foucault's Pendulum and Casino Royale simultaneously

>>38441782
Or just that she has too much of it. I'm not opposed to dating a well off/rich girl.

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>>38441487
>realise she only reads trash books that buzzfeed recommends
This is true of almost any girl who has a hobby, be it reading, music, movies, etc. Absolutely no personal taste, just follows whatever is popular. The more girls I meet the less I actually want a gf.

>>38441071
>Vernes
go fuck yourself illiterate scum

>>38440965
>if loyal

o i m laffin

>>38440241
Commiebot here
I read all the time (takes up 3-5 hours of my day) and it's always some political shit
Couldn't imagine finding a gf, let alone one that reads

>>38440241
I enjoy books when we're forced to read them, but I can never find anything on my own accord. Any recommendations? I liked 1984 and Catcher in the Rye and all that.

>>38441782
Or she has enough to not give a shit

>tfw /lit/ tried this and it really didn't work out

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>>38442877
>Commiebot here

>>38440241
> ywn make prosciutto out of those meaty legs.
why even life bros.

>>38441626
hurr i am so superior cause i read

>>38440241
most "i read xd" girls read shit books and teen novels. unless you read philosophical texts or textbooks, I don't really consider reading novels "reading"

>>38440950
What was he wrong about?

>>38443031
No homo though
Origami

>>38443826
>unless you read philosophical texts or textbooks, I don't really consider reading novels "reading"

what the fuck am i reading

>oh what do you read?
>been reading game of thrones, im such a nerd xD

>>38443826
>philosophical texts
>textbooks
so if I read any classics, im not really reading

>10/10 stacey feeling dumpy today

>young women read YAshit
>young men read fucking video game novels and comics

Young person genocide when

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>>38444103
>video game novels
no one reads these

>>38444167
They definitely do. You see several threads a week on /lit/ where some loser has read a video game novel and wants people to spoonfeed him recommendations based on it.

>>38444010
this kind of shit makes me sick. reminds me of that scene from band of brothers, where the jewish guy mentions that he loves to read, and then says he mostly reads dick tracy and flash gordon. except women lack the redeeming qualities of that guy

>>38444206
>You see several threads a week on /lit/ where some loser has read a video game novel and wants people to spoonfeed him recommendations based on it.

I have never seen this on /lit/

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>>38444206
at worst they are usually novels based on video games based on novels/established universes

>>38444346
That's the same thing to me

>>38440241

>need to get to the graphic novels section
>op's pic is blocking your path

wat do?

>>38444372
so is lord of the rings a video game novel?

>>38444310
It's irrefutable though. They are reading and enjoy it immensely, they objectively love to read. They could read 200 restaurant menus a day and if they liked it they would love reading. It's not like they say they love literature, a specific movement in writing or anything like that and say "Lol I just read GoT XD"

>>38443826
>unless you read philosophical texts or textbooks, I don't really consider reading novels "reading"
Are you posting from 1763?

>>38444103
>dismissing an entire medium sheerly out of ignorance
People who do this genocide when?

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>tfw 99.9% of space sci-fi is just generic softest sci-fi space opera shit
I want to mentally masturbate over engineering details I can't even understand.

>>38440241
Is graphic novel the reddit name for comic book?

>>38440297
Tell the bitch to get up. Who the fuck lays on books anyway what a fuckin mutt

>>38444167
>no one reads video game novels
*cough Halo Universe *couch

>>38444472
The fact that they think their idle engagement with shallow, poorly written literature is the same thing as my diligent attempt to read the western canon and a significant chunk of philosophy is annoying. The idea that their mindless activity is equal to my rigorous pursuit is disgusting. But even saying that on an anonymous image board makes me sound like a self-righteous pretentious faggot.

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>tfw you read Skullduggery Pleasant religiously and you're not a 14 year old girl.

>>38440241
"Book girls" tend to be fucking idiots and they only really read YA shit. Most of them are stupid fucking posers who think reading makes them look smart and sophisticated.
Plus, they think classics fucking suck most of the time.
>tried making "gal pals" like my parents wanted me to when I was in middle school and got called weirdo as always by stacy because I liked Stephen King novels, sociology books, and books about disease and history. Not shitty john gangreen teen novels.

Maybe it's just my personal bitterness. I don't know at this point.

>>38444794
To be fair, Stephen King is fucking shit and you should feel bad for liking him. Also, no slut is gonna think studying disease is normal if you're not a doctor.

>>38444859
>Implying Stephen King is shit.
I found the pussy boys.

>>38444794
Dude, I had it even worse than you - because Stacy actually *liked* talking to me about books.

That's secretly the worst outcome of all. You know why? Because Chad has never opened a book in his fucking life. By being the little book faggot hanging around with Stacy and talking to her about books, I was filling that hole in Chad's portfolio. "It's a good thing anon is around, I wanted to ask him if he's ever read any Herman Hesse...before I go fuck Chad later. Anon is so stimulating!"

Fuck you, Stacy. Never again.

When I see a girl reading or making a big deal about having read books, my first thought is basically:

>Oh god I'd have to work hard to look smart

So I go back to being a lifelong virgin instead.

>>38444962
Didn't imply anything you illiterate fuck, I made a statement that Stephen King is shit. That hack pumps out book after book with the same god-awful writing and shallow characters. Only scum enjoy Stephen King

>>38444859
Okay first off, not true. Sure, he has a few duds out there, but he is a good author. What the fuck anon?
Also, why? Diseases are interesting. Plagues are so neat. It just really makes you think when you the death tolls from history's biggest epidemics, how far medicine has come. It is very interesting.

>>38445026
what are some other alternatives to King anon?

>>38440297
m-miss..

>>38445028
Diseases are pretty cool, I like reading about the history of mental illness and shit, but I'm also aware that this makes me seem like a weird fuck. Normal people, particularly girls, think diseases are gross and don't want to think about them at all.

>>38445065
Anything in the western canon. Try Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Dante, Chaucer, fucking anybody. I can't recommend any good horror novels since I'm not into that, but there is way better sci-fi out there than Dark Tower such as Gibson, Heinlen, Dick, Asimov, and a fuck load of others I'm forgetting.

>>38445026
By making that statement you implied that you either are too much of a pussy to read his novels or you have too many chromosomes from your inbred family to understand his books. I personally don't like his work because I don't like the genre, but I'm not going to announce to the world that I should be euthanized by saying that the guy who wrote the Shinning and Dark Tower is shit.

>>38442878
Blood Meridian, check it out

>>38444564
I like Consider Phlebas

>>38445026
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is as close to a technically perfect novella in every way as English-language literature has ever produced.

It's as economical as Hemingway and as lyrical as Fitzgerald, and it has an utterly flawless story structure.

The only novella I can think of that even competes with it is A Christmas Carol.

King has put out a lot of hack work, but when he takes it seriously he's very, very impressive.

>>38445215
blood meridian is a chore to get through. page after page after page of descriptions of the fucking desert.

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>>38440241
So you're telling me she read 75% of what seems to be over a 200 page book while she was at the book store? Doubt.

This bitch doesn't read. She pretending to do so for an instagram pic so Chad with glasses will notice her.

>>38445168
>if you don't like what I like you must be a pussy

You apparently think Stephen King is a solid writer for those two books/series, which implies that you're a limp-dicked cocksucker who blows horses for money and enjoys being shit on by birds.

>>38445243
Its worth it for the scenes of violence.

>>38445151
Yeah.. Okay, I understand what you mean. An interest in diseases is odd. And yes, it seems that in my experience girls think it's fucking creepy. My weird interests were always a major barrier when making friends of the same gender, come to think of it...
But mental illness is cool too. It's shocking to read how they would try to "cure" schizophrenia and other diseases as early as 30 years ago, isn't it? Even though the mental health care system in America is still garbage, it sure is better than it used to...

>>38440241
Holy shit she looks just like me except skinnier

>>38445291
shove a book up your cunt you whore bitch

>>38445280
*learning about the history of mental illness.
Oh gosh, by no means is mental illness 'cool'. pardon my typo.

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>>38445299
how exactly am I a whore? I never said anything regarded sex, you man slut. kys

>>38445299
five dollars says you constantly whine about being a virgin and are super lonely.

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>>38445319
pleae delet i was just joking pls

>>38445319
Yea he is a little bitch boy who tells himself he doesnt need a woman while being a regular to BLACKED.com

>>38445280
Yeah, it's pretty insane we've gone from trepanning to pharmaceutically generated numbness. And fuck whores and any other faggot who doesn't like your interests, most of those cocksuckers are soulless bastards without any passion or interest. Ask 99% of girls what their hobbies are and they'll tell you "hanging out with friends or listening to music" as if those are actual interests. Having an actual interest in anything makes you better than those half-dead automatons, even if they think it's weird.

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>>38445256
Read my post again fuckwit I didn't say I liked his work. Also nice chimp IQ mentality, I gave some examples, actually read his books if you want to make an educated opinion instead of spewing shit. Go back to /b/ where you belong.

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>>38441048
You sure about that, anon?
You should reconsider, it's still not too late to buy Skyrim Enahnced Edition and pre-order Skyrim and Fallout VR.
It would be a shame if something happend to you or your family. Right, anon?

>>38445378
Why don't you read my post again you fuckhead. I have read some of his books, and thought that they were by and large the same mass manufactured horse shit, with a few good ideas and mediocre execution. Throw enough shit at the wall and eventually something will stick, doesn't make him a good writer.

>>38445341
sorry anon, but i wont stand for misogyny. consider yourself #owened. #malefeminist #imwithher

>>38444206
Get baited lel

Oreganooo

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Let nothing stop you

>>38445372
Yeah.. And thank you for this (You), anon! Sometimes I really feel bad because I can't really relate to anyone. But then I remember that conformity is, in a sense, a modern disease in itself. Most women do only just like to hang out with friends and have sex, drugs, such and such. Which is fine, power to them or whatever. But it makes it awfully hard to relate, and that is why I have only one friend who is also a girl, and we are each other's only friends. It is nice. So at this point I don't really want to fit in, anyway, really... plus I probably have autism and am getting testing for it soon and that might be a big reason why I am unable to.
But really thank you for this (you). It made me happy. I like the way you type and word things, anon. Have a good evening.

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>>38445446
>Only mentions reading Stephen King books after he gets called out for being uninformed.
>Dances around the fact that Stephen King has made horror classics throughout his career and points to a few bad novellas.

You're drunk, go home anon.

stephen king is shit. i got 3/4 the way through the stand and just gave up because it was so bad.

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>>38445575
no you, you son of a bitch

>>38444671
So is the fact that I go to the gym to lose weight disgusting because bodybuilders and professional athletes exist?
Is my use of the internet or a motor vehicle disgusting because I don't understand the processes that allow these things to work disgusting?
I have a literature degree by the way.

>>38445151
>Dante
>Chaucer
Nigger comparing someone who writes in prose to epic poetry is beyond retarded, fuck off you pretentious idiot.

>>38445243
Then No Country for Old Men or The Road. Both have a lot more action, but I assume they weren't recommended because they have film adaptations.

>>38445717
It's not the same and you know it. By going to the gym, you don't imply you're equal to athletes. Using the internet doesn't imply you believe you're on the level of those who developed it. It's like if you wrote a great book and some retard tells you that he's just like you because he wrote a one page book review. Also, what does your shitty degree have to do with it

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>>38445151
literally show me an honest man

>>38445754
Read the post, wasn't comparing them. He was asking for alternatives.

>>38445765
i read the road. i enjoyed it more than blood meridian.

>>38445781
By reading someone doesn't imply they are a literature aficionado you fucking moron. Nor does someone do that by claiming they love to read, because as we've established, that's a purely objective metric that has nothing to do with quality.
I mentioned my background with literature because I wanted to let you know I wasn't strictly arguing as a casual reader, that I have an understanding of your perspective.

>>38445797
Epic poetry is not an alternative to a 20th century prose horror writer, it is quite literally a different medium, and neither of those writers are similar in their storytelling style beyond what has seeped into all writing through their major influence.
Actual alternatives for King (and I don't know how O High Arbiter of taste over there would feel about these guys, but I like them well enough) would be someone like Jeff Vandermeer or China Mevielle. New Weird in general is pretty influenced by King, as much as people want to force the Lovecraft meme there.

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>>38445835
Every single time some faggot has told me they love to read, it's been in response to them seeing me read a book or me mentioning a book I read, as if it's a shared commonality. I'm aware this is how people relate in a social setting, but it's retarded for the guy who read hunger games to think we have something in common because I am reading Demons or some other book that makes me look a pretentious cunt. It's like engaging with a marathon runner by saying, "You run marathons, no way! I walk down to my mailbox every day. Shit's pretty crazy, man. I've always loved walking with my legs, makes me feel mobile."

>>38445895
I mentioned that I have no real alternatives for good horror books since I don't read much in that genre, mentioned the good sci-fi authors I knew. Sorry you don't feel like it was good alternative, trying to say his time would be better spent on other authors.

>>38445939
You might as well have recommended Stanley Kubrik or Van Gogh since you were recommending a different medium.

>>38446040
Fair enough, my bad hoss.

>>38442846
if she is a yandere i have no problem at all. i find her cute enough to only want her for the rest of my life.

imagine all the kinds of sex you can get her to do with you to make sure you only have eyes for her mhmhmh

>>38445915
So is it an insecurity thing combined with a superiority complex (which I guess inherently stems from insecurity)? If you're inherently acknowledging these people are casual readers, why do you expect them to understand the gravity of the work you're reading? Media is a social construct, it's not an instinctual concept like running with objective metrics like miles. A much fairer comparison is a foreign language speaker who doesn't know what a marathon is besides the fact that it deals with using legs making the same comment.

>>38446260
why do I have to have to be insecure to dislike something

>>38446376
Well I'm gaging the insecurity from you calling yourself a pretentious cunt for reading a big book in public

Regarding works of fiction, why would you choose to read the book instead of watching the movie if the author can literally show you his artistic vision, with full detail and music accompaniment, rather than forcing the reader to infer what it means and leave it up to interpretation?

>>38446527

>why would you choose to read the book instead of watching the movie instead of watching the movie if the author can literally show you his artistic vision, with full detail

Because oftentimes those things get butchered in translation.

>>38446527
>implying any medium is objectively better than another
Retard alert

>>38446527
if you want a good example of what books can do that movies can't, go read ubik and three stigmata of palmer eldritch. the narratives are just too confusing and won't translate to film, they are both very highly acclaimed books by PKD but they do not have movies because it would almost impossible to translate.

>>38442808
I'm new to the /lit/ brand of autism, what's wrong with Vernes?

>>38444376
kill yourself (but in an original way)

>>38446527
Okay for one, prose allows you to control the pacing in a scene in a way that is impossible in film. If an author wants to use, for example an advertisement plastered on a wall as a thematic tool or to balance a character or whatever, he can spend literal pages on that advertisement, describing it and using it as he sees fit without using a second of "time" on the action in the scene.
In a film he either needs to let the camera lay on that ad for a ridiculous amount of time or have a character clunkily give the same explanation a third person narrator or free indirect discourse can provide.
A more simple example of this is a description of a fight. A writer can describe every minute action that happens in a fight, but a film must use things like slow motion, excessive cutting to match that level of descriptiveness.
For another it allows the thoughts of a character to be easily expressed without interrupting the story. It's once again an issue of pacing and time. A voice over has to be used, which takes time. A character can't express complex thoughts that would be like a soliloquy read aloud on the screen without derailing a scene, but in a book it's easily and frequently done.

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A girl approached me while I was reading in a bike trail once. In less than five minutes of conversation I learned that "OMG I love reading" means "I have read Harry Potter and two Game of Thrones books".

>>38446527
World War Z.

That's all I need to say

Tolkien in my experience can attract roasties, but what does /r9k/ think about the guy's letters along with the Silmarillion and such?

>>38446527
>f watching the movie if the author can literally show you his artistic vision
What? The author rarely has anything to do with the "artistic" vision with adaptations.

What is your favorite book, Robots?

>>38443875
Losing.

Orgie

>>38448047
Moby Dick likely

>>38448316
Excellent taste desuuuu kjjbiubijg

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>>38440270
you're reading this comment right now